Elmer Steele
Boston Americans 1907; Boston Red Sox 1908–1909; Pittsburgh Pirates 1910; Brooklyn Dodgers 1911; Pittsburgh Pirates 1911
Percentile snapshot
1911 season — qualified pitchers
of 92 qualified 1911 pitchers (min 155 IP)
Career, era-adjusted
sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.
Season by season
Batting
| Season | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1907 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -112.6 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.2 |
| 1908 | 16 | 41 | 39 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 0 | 0 | .051 | .075 | .051 | .126 | -69.5 | -59.3 | .067 | 1.7 |
| 1909 | 16 | 24 | 22 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | .227 | .261 | .273 | .534 | 62.2 | 66.9 | .262 | 0.5 |
| 1910 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .125 | .000 | .125 | -59.3 | -63.3 | .097 | 0.4 |
| 1911 | 36 | 76 | 70 | 4 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 21 | 1 | 0 | .157 | .213 | .171 | .385 | 7.5 | 7.8 | .196 | 3.3 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1907 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 11.3 | 1.59 | 1.059 | 7.94 | 0.84 | 33.1 | 160.2 | 0.2 |
| 1908 | 16 | 13 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 85 | 24 | 13 | 37 | 1 | 118.0 | 1.83 | .831 | 2.82 | 2.14 | 87.6 | 133.5 | 1.7 |
| 1909 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 75 | 24 | 15 | 32 | 1 | 75.7 | 2.85 | 1.189 | 3.81 | 2.25 | 89.4 | 88.0 | 0.5 |
| 1910 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 19 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 24.0 | 2.25 | .917 | 2.63 | 2.17 | 70.3 | 137.3 | 0.4 |
| 1911 | 36 | 18 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 177 | 56 | 36 | 61 | 5 | 189.0 | 2.67 | 1.127 | 2.90 | 2.96 | 87.1 | 127.2 | 3.3 |
sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.
Career totals
Batting
Pitching
A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.
Best games
Batting
| Date | Game | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1909-06-23 | NYY @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1909-04-28 | NYY @ BOS Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1911-05-16 | PIT @ ATL Gameday | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1911-04-29 | CHC @ PIT Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1911-05-08 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1909-04-28 | NYY @ BOS Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 0 |
| 1911-05-08 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0 |
| 1909-06-23 | NYY @ BOS Gameday | 9.0 | 13 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 0 |
| 1907-09-12 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 5.0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 1911-08-12 | PIT @ CIN Gameday | 9.0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.